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By Andrea Shalal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren this week called on the Treasury Department to more swiftly address racial discrimination in the U.S. tax and banking systems by advancing reforms proposed by an advisory board set up in December 2022.

In a letter dated May 9, Warren told Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen she was concerned that many recommendations made by the Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity... (continue reading...)

By Ali Kucukgocmen

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has opened the ancient Chora church, one of Istanbul's most celebrated Byzantine buildings, to Muslim worshippers after it was used as a museum for more than 70 years, making it the second such major conversion under President Tayyip Erdogan.

Erdogan, a champion of pious Muslims in Turkey and head of a party with Islamist roots, turned Istanbul's world-renowned Hagia Sophia from a museum into... (continue reading...)

LONDON (Reuters) - Two Britons, including a former researcher for a prominent British lawmaker in the governing Conservative Party, were told on Friday they would go on trial next year accused of spying for China.

The men, ex-researcher Christopher Cash, 29, and Christopher Berry, 32, were charged last month with providing prejudicial information to China in breach of the Official Secrets Act.

Cash and Berry, who have not yet entered a... (continue reading...)

MADRID (Reuters) - U.S. car maker Ford plans to assemble 300,000 units of a new model per year at its Spanish plant in the Valencia region starting 2027, the Spanish Industry Ministry said on Friday.

The company had said in March it was considering making a new sports-utility vehicle (SUV) at its plant in Valencia in Spain, amid changes it saw in the industry and market evolution.

(Reporting by Inti Landauro; editing by Philippa Fletcher)

By Joan Faus

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain's Catalonia region holds an election on Sunday with big implications for the Socialist-led national government and a pro-independence movement rumbling for a decade.

WHEN DID THE INDEPENDENCE PUSH START?

Support for independence was marginal in the wealthy northeastern region, which speaks its own Catalan language and borders France, until the 2012 eurozone financial crisis that led... (continue reading...)